Investors Flock to CTAs, Despite Misgivings

Despite their boom-and-bust reputation, commodity trading advisers have lately attracted assets from institutional investors wary of equity markets.

Stephen Taub June 13, 2016

Institutions have continued to warm up to commodity trading advisers, a strategy that has historically had something of a bad rap with this group. A record 1,067 institutional investors had investments in CTAs in 2015, up from 1,017 in 2014, according to a new report

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